Electronic prescriptions may be the cure for a doctor’s bad handwriting, but they also carry an unhealthy dose of legal risks for the ill-prepared.

That’s what health care law attorneys are advising the medical profession as it embraces “e-prescribing” — a rapidly growing practice whereby doctors are ditching pen and paper to order prescriptions through cyberspace.

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